A report is to go to Cabinet on the 25th January giving officers approval to look at options for transferring all leisure centres out of County Council control to save money.

This was mentioned at Environment Scrutiny last week under the title “Management Options Appraisal Phase 1”. You might say not exactly obvious title!

This report can be seen here: http://democracy.durham.gov.uk/documents/s16191/Report%20re%20Management%20Options%20Appraisal%20without%20track%20changes.pdf

If I get a copy of the presentation I will upload it. If the Council did transfer the ownership of the leisure centres into some form of trust – pretty much what a lot of the bidders wanted to do when trying to save the six the council tried to close – it could potentially save a lot of money.

This begs the question why the utterly incompetent Labour administration didn’t think of doing this earlier – instead of forcing communities to fight bitterly to keep centres open. They really are a complete shower. If I didn’t know how useless they are I would think they were evil.